Mick Clifford: Ghosts of the pandemic must be faced down

Mistakes were made, by the Government and by others. It simply could not be any other way.

On Thursday, Judge Mary Fahy dismissed the charges against the Golfgate Four: Former Fianna Fáil senator Donie Cassidy, Independent TD Noel Grealish, and hoteliers John Sweeney and James Sweeney.

Truckloads of hot air were generated this week in response to the respective conclusions of two pandemic-related inquiries.

Reaction in both cases was dictated by politics rather than reason, at a time when reason is increasingly banished from the practice of politics.